On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:54:58PM -0400, Ron Bettle wrote: > You will need the reiserFS utils, get these rom reisers site. > > Its not difficult more time consuming than anything. What needs to happen is > this. Say your /usr is it own partition. You need a 'spare' partition that is > as big as /usr. Then you unmount the 'spare' format it as reiser (mkreiserfs > /dev/hda5 for instance). This will create a reiserFS on hda5. Now, mount hda5 > to say /mnt/tmp or something. Copy all the files in /usr (cp -R /usr/* > /mnt/tmp) this takes awhile. After that is done and you HAVE VERIFIED that > all the data coppied correctly, rm -fr /usr/*. after that, umount /dev/hda5, > then mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda5 /usr.
cp -R is a horribly wrong thing to use for this task, it will destroy symlinks and hardlinks. turning them into duplicate files. use cpio or tar. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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